Alcor allows members to specify the conditions under which they do or do not want to be cryopreserved. One popular option reads as follows: “I
There is a growing consensus in the cryonics community that for many people it is not technical feasibility but fear of an unknown future that
Every Alcor member has experienced this. What appears to start as a discussion about the feasibility of cryonics quickly turns into a conversation about “overpopulation,”
Statement on the High Court ruling concerning 14 year-old cancer victim’s right to cryonics Click here for PDF Our hearts go out to the young
(PDF version) In this article, I want to introduce you to Bitcoin, a topic that fascinates me almost as much as cryonics. Many Cryonics readers
For this month’s column, I have been asked to write about how to start a viable and well-attended local life extension group. I suppose the
(Or, Corporations are People, Too…) In my last article, I looked at some historical and contemporary examples of legal activism aimed at expanding legal personhood to beings not
Legal Approaches Toward Cryonics Patient Personhood The current medico-legal definition of death creates numerous obstacles to the successful resuscitation and reintegration of cryonics patients: our
The “uncanny valley” is a theory described in 1970 by robotics professor Masahiro Mori which posits that as a robot’s appearance becomes more human-like, observer
The latter half of therapeutic cryopreservation involves three “R”s: resuscitation, rehabilitation, and reintegration. Of the three, reintegration receives the least attention as to its content, so permit me to deconstruct